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Hunter S. Thompson

I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Law Myself Necessary Place Try
It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Feeling Hate Myself Old Strange Wisdom
I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Black Light Moon Naked Need
I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Compare Flame Myself
I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Distance Feeling Myself Reality
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Beautiful Death Dreams Live Love Pain Planning Rise Thinking
Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Aware Goal Life Way
It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Life Man Myself Rhythm
On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Believe Loud Music Night Right Run
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Honesty Myself Poverty Taste
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Better Force Life Serious Stop
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Existence Happiness Man Question Reading Security Stay
I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Happiness Heart Mindset Respect See Yourself
Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Goodness Sex Writing
Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Action One Liner Worth
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Acceptance Choice Hands Life Necessary Yourself

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